Looking For These!!

 

Do you have any of the 1999-2001 Pacific Holiday Ornaments for football and baseball available for trade? Or just collecting dust that you want to get rid of? Just drop me a comment or email (sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com) for a trade!

Thanks!

Trying to build up my Christmas PC more.

Random Card Of The Day #11:2001 Upper Deck Super Bowl XXXV Ron DIxon

Random Card Of The Day #4:2001 Titanium Team Titanium Ron Dayne

June 26 1963

On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered his greatest speech at the Berlin Wall.

Today, on June 26 2020, I deliver one of my coolest relic cards in my collection.

In 2001, Topps released American Pie product that was a hybrid baseball/non-sports set designed to captured the essence of America at the height of the Baby Boomers Era of the '60's and '70's where a lot happened.

The product covers a lot of events, musicians and athletes of the time. 

There was some big names to chase across the board with relics and autographs as well including this unique relic of the Berlin Wall where John F. Kennedy spoke.

Great design and really cool relic

Here is a closer pic of the relic up close. Just some crumbs from the Berlin Wall. Makes you wonder how you acquire such relic to use for the cards.

The Kennedy is the cheapest of all the relics included and most can be found for well under $10. Which for me owning a piece of American history for that price I will take all day. The other relics are of musicians and those go for $50 and up. Boxes of this product still hold a heavy price of $150 and up.

How many of you have seen or own one of these? What was your favorite moment of the 60's and 70's?

Kerry's Cardboard:2001 Upper Deck Collectibles Super Bowl XXXV

In his second season with the Giants, Kerry Collins put up good numbers in the 2000 season leading the Giants to a 12-4 record and a trip to the Super Bowl to play against the Ravens.

However, Giants actually going to the Super Bowl vs actually playing in it were two different things.

Collins put up by far the worst numbers of his career and the third worst Super Bowl rating for a QB as the Ravens defense dominated and shut him down to completing only 15 of 39 passes for 112 yards and four interceptions. The Giants played awful and lost 34-7.

To commemorate the Super Bowl, Upper Deck created a 21 card set featuring both of the teams featured in the game. A set I didn't know existed til recently when I stumbled up on the Collins.

Not too shabby of a design.

 

Card back shows Collins as card 12 in the boxed set

The Super Bowl play really hung over Collins who lost a record 23 fumbles in 2001 with the Giants.

NYG PC Spotlight 136:2001 Playoff Preferred Jesse Palmer

 

Jesse Palmer

Base Card

Card number 105

Cards #D 246/1100

I should also mention that this card and the rest I will be posting this week and last week are brought to by Wes. Wes, the man who sends the big ole heat mail days!

NYG PC Spotlight 81:2001 Bowman Chrome Tiki Barber

 

Tiki Barber

Base Card

Card Number 55

BASEically Awesome Part 12:2001 Topps Fusion Baseball

You wanna know what makes these BASEically Awesome.......you combine 5 of my favorite Topps sets and fuse them into one.

You have Finest

Gallery

Stadium Club with some action packed photography

Gold Label with all it's beauty

And Bowman's Best with lots of shinyness

 

What isn't there not to love? I actually still wished some of these designs and products existed today like Gallery.

There are 250 cards in the set and I would bet it is some challenge to put together and possibly one that set collectors who like a challenge may want to try.

So how many of you have tried to set collect this? Have any thoughts on a product like this combining many products? Let me hear them in comments!

NYG PC Spotlight 23:2002 Fleer Tradition Rookie Retro Threads Football Jesse Palmer

Jesse Palmer

Football Swatch

Card #

Wrappers Of Collecting Past:2001 Topps Series 1

Here we are again for another edition of Wrappers Of Collecting past. In this segment you will find wrappers from the late 80s to today. It will cover multiple sport and non sport.

Today we jump back to 2001 to Topps baseball that was celebrating it's 50th anniversary. A golden one that comes with a golden wrapper.

 

 

I don't honestly remember a whole lot about Series 1 as Series 2 was the one you wanted more with the Ichiro rookie lurking, but with it being the golden anniversary and my yearly purchasing of flagship, I was on board to buy either way. I do remember trying to chase down my Yankee needs. I also was hoping to pull an "original" Topps card. Never did though.

The inserts were really sharp to and the relic cards were well designed that year so those were some of my chases as well.

What about you? What were you chasing down in 2001 Topps baseball? Let me know in comments!

Random Card On My Desk:2001 Fleer Tradition League Leader Pedro Martinez

Ken Griffey Jr. # 700

I have long since passed the 700 cards threshold of my Ken Griffey Jr PC, but what I didn't do was post my 700th card that I had to make sure was an important one.

And boy in my mind did I make it a sweet purchase. Not only was it a Griffey card, but it's a piece of Yankee history as well.

Griffey hit his 361st career home run at Yankee Stadium in 1999 and on this card is a stadium seat to commemorate it. I always struggled when Griffey played my team as picking a side could be challenging. I usually went with, "let Ken hit multiple home runs but give the Yanks the win." Only way I could see the best of both worlds.

Here is a picture of the seat they used. So cool! Wished companies did this still.

I am already looking forward to trying to search something cool down for card #800. It most likely won't be an autographed card, but I promise it will keep your interest and mine.

Here's to #800!

Thoughts on Griffey #700 are appreciated :)

Griffey Jr. #600

When the time came and I reached my Griffey 599 different Griffey, I wanted to mark my 600th Griffey as something really cool to show how serious I am about my #MissionGriffey.

Well, I think I did pretty well with my choice.

Introducing the 600th Griffey card to my collection, a 2001 Donruss Classics Benchmarks with a piece of Dugout Bench from Three Rivers Stadium.

Here is the back of the card with the photo of the actual item the swatch came from. Man, I miss these days of showcasing the item as a whole on the back.

Now it's the drive to 700 different Griffeys! I plan on keeping you all updated as I go.

Thanks again for reading and stay tuned!

PC Masterpiece:2001 Upper Deck Legends Of New York Yogi Berra ('53 Banner Seasons)

In 2001, Upper Deck dedicated a product to the New York baseball teams Mets and Yankees called Upper Deck Legends Of New York. As the product is called, it sums up all of the legends in those teams histories.

This is one of my favorite cards from the set. I really like the photograph of Yogi they used, the text and the layout of the card. Another thing I like about these base card is the "fuzz" feel in the writing Yankees. I don't know what it is about the fuzz that catches my attention, but it just adds another fun feature to the card.

CAPTION THIS!

 

"Milton Bradley's new board game, bunting"

 Let's hear your CAPTION THIS for this card! (keep it clean, no language too!)

CAPTION THIS!

 

"Football drills again"

 Let's hear your CAPTION THIS for this card! (keep it clean, no language too!)

CAPTION THIS!

 

"MY PANTS ARE ON FIRE!!!"

 Let's hear your CAPTION THIS for this card! (keep it clean, no language too!)

CAPTION THIS!

"Leap Frog"

Product:Upper Deck 2001

Card #186

 

 Let's hear your CAPTION THIS for this card! (keep it clean, no language too!)

Upper Deck Card Of The Week: 2001 Upper Deck Sp Game Used Torry Holt Jersey Card

 

Brand: Sp Game Used

Card Number:TH

Card Type: Memorabilia Card

Featured NY Yankees Card

 

Mike Mussina

Upper Deck Sweet Spot 2001

Card # 104